López Portillo also proposed the Plan Mundial de Energéticos in 1979 and summoned a North-South World Summit in Cancún in 1981 to seek solutions to social problems.

López Portillo also freed political prisoners and proposed a reform called Ley Federal de Organizaciones Políticas y Procesos Electorales which gave official registry to opposition groups such as the Partido Demócrata Mexicano and the Partido Comunista Mexicano.

López Portillo also created the secretaries of Programming and Budgeting, Agriculture and Water Resources, Industrial Support, Fisheries and Human Settlements and Public Works.

After the election, Portillo renewed his attachment to Kerr McGee but also undertook substantial media work including programmes for the BBC and Channel 4.

In the early 1980s, Mexican President José López Portillo suggested that Mexcaltitán, also in Nayarit, was the true location of Aztlán, but this was denounced by Mexican historians as a political move.

" He also spent long periods in New York City and on the Mediterranean, until President José López Portillo issued a decree nationalising Mexico's banking system and greatly devaluing its currency overnight.

So the daughter and son of Ángela López Sáenz and Tomás Portillo Blanco are usually called Laura Portillo López and Pedro Portillo López, but also could be called Laura López Portillo and Pedro López Portillo.

Michael Portillo lived briefly in Seacombe in 2003 for the BBC TV programme When Michael Portillo became a Single Mum, which saw the former Conservative MP experience life as a single parent ( he also worked in the Asda superstore in Wallasey ).

He has also written a sympathetic biography of Michael Portillo and a critical study of the Northern Ireland peace process, The Price of Peace, for which he won the Charles Douglas-Home Prize.

They also grabbed headlines by naming one of their songs " Bring Me The Head of Michael Portillo ".

" ( del Portillo 1996, p. 22-25 ) Various Jewish officials, Opus Dei supporters say, also came out publicly to Escrivá's defense.

Along with coach Luis César Sampedro remained some of the players responsible for the promotion, as veteran Antonio Pinilla, and Albano Bizarri, Rubén Castro, Ariza Makukula and Javier Portillo ( eventually the team's top scorer ), were also brought in.

He received a bachelor, master and doctorate's degree in law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( UNAM ), where he also taught several courses for almost 19 years ( 1954 – 1973 ) before heading the Mexican Institute of Social Security in the López Portillo administration.

During his campaign, López Portillo promised to defend the peso " like a dog ", López Portillo refused to devalue the currency saying " The president who devalues, devalues himself.

" The discovery of significant oil sites in Tabasco and Campeche helped the economy to recover and López Portillo promised to " administer the abundance ".

On the day of his investiture Portillo said that Guatemala was " on the edge of collapse ", and promised a thorough government investigation into corruption.

With both candidates promising to finalize the peace negotiations Portillo narrowly lost, garnering 48. 7 % of the vote.

President Portillo pledged to maintain strong ties to the United States, further enhance Guatemala's growing cooperation with Mexico, and participate actively in the integration process in Central America and the Western Hemisphere.

Portillo was accused of authorizing $ 15 million in transfers to the Guatemalan defense department, where authorities believe most of the money was stolen by his associates.

Until her appointment as a shadow minister in October 2010, Abbott appeared alongside former Conservative politician and media personality Michael Portillo on the BBC's weekly politics digest This Week.

Portillo was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1984 ; a strong admirer of Margaret Thatcher, and a Eurosceptic, Portillo served as a junior minister under both Thatcher and John Major, before entering the cabinet in 1992.

In the Royal Festival Hall in London, the scene of the Labour party celebrations that evening, the result elicited a massive cheer, as Portillo was not only a cabinet minister and was widely tipped as a future leader of the Conservative Party, but he was widely loathed among Labour supporters.

After being overlooked to present the BBC's flagship news programme Newsnight, Neil has presented This Week with ex-Conservative minister Michael Portillo, and Labour MP for Hackney Diane Abbott.

Portillo ran on a somewhat socially liberal manifesto, calling for the party to reform and reach out to groups not normally associated with the party, calling for greater involvement of women, ethnic minorities and homosexuals.

Alfonso Portillo was named to replace him as the FRG candidate, and narrowly lost.

In the year leading to the end of his term as president, December 1, 1982, López Portillo personally chose two candidates as possibilities to replace himself, following the succession ritual established by the PRI party.

However, the FRG lost to Óscar Berger's GANA party, who was sworn in to replace Portillo on 14 January 2004.

The ruling Republican Front of Guatemala ( FRG ) nominated former military ruler Efraín Ríos Montt to succeed outgoing president Alfonso Portillo Cabrera.

Travelers from every part of the world mingled in the airport lounge — from the French & Belgian contingents of the Elvis Presley Fan Club on their way to Memphis, to President Jose Lopez Portillo of Mexico on his way to Moscow with members of his military staff.

With almost 20 parties competing in the first round, the presidential election came down to a January 7, 1996 runoff in which PAN candidate Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen defeated Alfonso Portillo Cabrera of the FRG by just over 2 % of the vote.

José López Portillo and President of the United States | U. S. President Jimmy Carter at the National Palace | National Palace ( Mexico ) presidential office ( 1979 ).

When Ríos Montt was constitutionally barred from running in the 12 November presidential election because he had previously taken power through a coup d ' etat, the FRG chose Portillo as their candidate.

In the 1995 presidential election, FRG candidate Alfonso Portillo narrowly lost in the second round, which is a run-off between the two highest placed candidates from the first round ballot.

Portillo was criticized during the campaign for his relationship with the FRG's chairman, former president Ríos Montt.

" Major later said that he had picked the number three from the air and that he was referring to " former ministers who had left the government and begun to create havoc with their anti-European activities ", but many journalists suggested that the three were Peter Lilley, Michael Portillo and Michael Howard, three of the more prominent " Eurosceptics " within his Cabinet.

Mexico increased its international presence during López Portillo: in addition to becoming the world's fourth oil exporter, Mexico restarted relations with the post Franco-Spain in 1977, allowed Pope John Paul II to visit Mexico, welcomed American president Jimmy Carter and broke relations with Somoza and supported the Sandinista National Liberation Front in its rebellion against the United States supported government.

Pedro Zamora ( left ) with Alonso R. del Portillo in 1993.

Clinton, along with a Zamora family friend named Alonso R. del Portillo, Attorney General Janet Reno, Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, and Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, reached an agreement with Cuba that would admit 20, 000 Cubans per year.

Returning to the Commons through a by-election in Kensington and Chelsea in 1999, Portillo rejoined the front bench as Shadow Chancellor, although his relationship with Conservative Leader William Hague was strained.

An early brush with fame came in 1961 at the age of 8, when Portillo starred in a television advertisement for Ribena, a blackcurrant cordial drink.

Portillo graduated in 1975 with a first-class degree in history, and after a brief stint with Ocean Transport and Trading Co., a freight firm, he joined the Conservative Research Department in 1976.

Many urged Portillo to run against Major, and he set up a potential campaign headquarters with banks of telephone lines.

") Portillo himself commented, thirteen years later, that as a consequence " My name is now synonymous with eating a bucketload of shit in public.

In an interview with The Times given in the summer of 1999, Portillo admitted that " I had some homosexual experiences as a young person.

Since 2003, Portillo has appeared in the BBC weekly political discussion programme This Week with Andrew Neil and, until September 2010, Labour MP Diane Abbott.

She played Lady Macduff to his Macduff The chemistry between Portillo and Abbott has been credited with ensuring the programme's popularity.

Since 2002, he has presented his own discussion series, " Dinner with Portillo ", on BBC Four, in which political and social questions are explored by Portillo and his seven guests, over a four-course meal.

Filmed in 2009 but first broadcast 4 January 2010, Portillo presented Great British Railway Journeys in which he explored, with the aid of George Bradshaw's 1840 railway guidebook, how the railways had a profound influence on the social, economic and political history of Britain.

The modern period of in Honduran theater began with Luis Andrés Zúñiga Portillo when he wrote " Los Conspiradores " ( The Conspirators, 1916 ), a historic drama that honored the virtues of Francisco Morazán.

Perkins attended the Harrow County Grammar School, alongside such future-names as Nigel Sheinwald ( now, as Sir Nigel, British ambassador to Washington ), Michael Portillo and Clive Anderson, with whom he ran the debating society.

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Following the rioting, the Constitutional Court, packed with allies of Ríos Montt and Portillo, overturned the Supreme Court decision.